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I do appreciate the honest dialogue. I had to search for info about government banning gendered language. What I found was interesting. And it looks like another example of fake outrage, first propagated by Dinesh D'Souza and then Breitbart. It seems to have spread all over right leaning media from there. It looks like the House of Representatives re-wrote the rules of conduct for House members and used non-gender specific language. For instance, there was a passage that prohibited Congress members from hiring, "fathers, mothers, fathers in law, mothers in law, brothers, sisters, brothers in law, sisters in law..." And it was re-written to read, "parents, in-laws and siblings..." It seems to be a long tedious document spelling out what Congress can and can not do in the course of their job. What does not appear to be anywhere in this re-write are rules on the use of language. In fact shortly after the re-write, Nancy Pelosi (regardless of what you think of her as a person) gave a speech where she reffered to herself as a mother and wife. If the House did not change the rules of language use, which appears to be the case, why have the right leaning media jumped all over it claiming that the House has banned the usage of gendered language? It seems like they are lying to evoke emotional responses from their base.

If they want to avoid the running start, but make it easier to recover, make it a live ball after 5 yards, not 10.

Cancel Culture! strikes again!

Let me first say thank you for responding honestly. While we may end up totally disagreeing on this point, I appreciate your sincerity. And I appreciate that the family of Nancy Green sees their relative and her role in selling the product when they think of the brand. It's actually not her picture on the box, and many different actresses played Aunt Jemima throughout the years. She happens to be the first one, and the story at the stage show was that she, Aunt Jemima, created the mix from scratch. That was a story, that at some point got passed down to the family as fact. Let's be 100% honest, very few people knew the story of Nancy Green until Quaker announced they were rebranding. Then some news organizations picked up on the family's press release and ran with it. I read that and thought the Green family must be wealthy having invented Aunt Jemima pancakes. It turns out they didn't make a dime. I have a lot of stories from my grandparents that turned out to be either off, or flat out false. So I understand how family lore can be taken as a truth, only later to learn otherwise. If Nancy Green had invented the pancake mix, and her family was profiting from it's sales, I'd say they still deserve their royalties, even after the rebrand. But they never received any, because she was playing a role. The role was originally created in a 1875 minstrel show, where Aunt Jemima was the central character played in blackface by a white man. They sang a song about dumb old Aunt Jemima who's happy to serve white people. The brand Aunt Jemima was created decades before hiring Nancy Green to play her. There are many black accomplishments to celebrate, and we probably don't celebrate them enough. Aunt Jemima isn't one of them. I'm not sure how to respond to being called a supremecist for thinking it's a good thing that Quaker is no longer using one of the most popular symbols of white supremecy. But I didn't put any pressure on them to change, and I don't know that their decision was anything other than an internal business choice. Here's what Neil deGrasse Tyson has to say, "It’s not that Aunt Jemima was a symbol of a racist past, she was the very embodiment of a racist past. She will not be missed by anyone who knew that."

Oh what Faux Outrage you have! https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/6892781002

Quaker, which is owned by Pepsico, made the choice revert to the original Pearl Milling Company. I had nothing to do with it. I wasn't offended by anything, but understand why they would want to stop using a racist trope. What I find illuminating is the extent to which right wingers will go to express outrage and offense against companies making choices to repair there racist past. It's almost like the people most offended by Quaker attempting to repair it's racist past are angry that they would admit that there was something to repair.

Nancy Green didn't come up with the formula for Aunt Jemima pancakes. The Pearl Milling company did, 40 years before they hired her at a casting call to play Aunt Jemima at live events. The owner of the company saw a minstrel show featuring a mammy character named Aunt Jemima, and decided to brand his pancake mix with the popular trope. It was popular because it communicated to white people that black women were happy in their servitude. Just in case anyone is into racist relics from the past, you can bid on Dr. Seuss drawings of slavery: https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.artnet.com/market/racist-dr-seuss-drawing-auction-302586/amp-page

He's definitely a DE in McD's system, and McD also values position flexibility. Are his 5 sacks a year enough production to warrant taking him in the 1st?

I wonder if New Orleans has strengthened thier flood walls since?

Burn the liberals!

False analogy, Texas chose not to winterize it's grid and also disconnected itself from the interstate grid. Everything that resulted from the polar vortex hitting Texas could have been prevented. But they chose to ignore federal winterization regulations and disconnected from the rest of the country who could have sent them power.

Nobody said Dr. Seuss is bad. The Dr. Seuss foundation is going to stop selling a few of his less popular books that have racist depictions in them. Then they are going to re-release them with updated pictures to try to sell copies of titles that no one has bought in decades. But this is as good a reason as any get your panties in a bunch and declare war! Kill the liberals for burning books!

JJ Abrams is rebooting a black Super Man. He's clearly an advanced CCP that can handle more than one task at a time. Get any Q drops lately?

Sarcasm is an artform, and one of the principles of its effective use is that it actually comes across as sarcasm.

Oh cool, you're just being a dick on purpose and don't actually believe what you're writing. Hope that makes you feel good about yourself!

Talk about not possessing reading comprehension skills. Biden issues a statement quoting his wife on the importance of reading comprehension, and the right wing claims Biden is calling for burning Dr. Seuss books. Why don't you try to find that DC pizzeria and see if you can rescue the children.

That's funny because the CCP bot that I had installed into my cerebral cortex has scheduled a Dr. Seuss book burning event into my Google Calendar for this Friday! See you at the book burning, comrade!

Are you saying you don't want to play with Mr. Potato Head's spud?

It's either the Jews, the Chinese CCP or Satan. Pick two and stick with it.

The decision was made by the Dr. Seuss Foundation, who are the owners of the books. There's 45 Dr. Seuss books, now 39 are going to be for sale. The conservative backlash to this is almost as funny as as the conservative demands to bring back Mr. Potato(e) Head's penis so they can play with his spud... (Mr. Potato(e) Head never had a penis, dummies.) In an unrelated new story, Super Man is an alien from another planet, he isn't a white anglo saxon. But the conservative backlash to the idea that there is going to be a black Super Man is hilarious.

Well thanks for the apology, I was going to have to cry myself to sleep 😂

I know man, and for 6 years Bills fans kept talking about kicking over to right tackle.

Sort of like conservatives searching for offended liberals so they have something to be offended about.

Maybe we can kick Cordy Glenn over to RT in case Daryl Williams leaves?